Diabetic Neuropathy CAN Be Treated! 6 Natural Solutions

How nutritional supplementation can help

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Neuropathy, or damage to the peripheral or autonomic nerves, is a common complication of diabetes. This not only causes losses in sensory and motor function, but can also lead to debilitating pain and even foot ulcers which may in turn lead to amputation. While conventional treatment is limited to good foot and nail hygiene, early detection of potential ulcers and strong painkillers such as antiepileptics and opioids, research has found that nutritional supplements are capable of even reversing nerve damage.

1. Treatment with Acetyl-l-Carnitine

One of those nutritional supplements that can bring true relief to diabetic neuropathy is acetyl-l-carnitine. In a study involving 333 patients diagnosed with neuropathy, participants were injected with either 1000mg of carnitine or placebo for 10 days, and then given either 2000mg of the supplement or a placebo for the remaining 355 days.

After 12 months, the treated patients showed a significant improvement in nerve conduction velocity, amplitude, and pain. The greatest changes in NCV were in the sensory sural nerve at +7 metres per second, the sensory ulnar nerve at +2.9m/second, and in the motor peroneal nerve at +2.7m/second on average. The greatest improvement in amplitude was also in the motor peroneal nerve at +2.2mV.

2. Using Vitamin B12 for Diabetic Neuropathy

Additionally, mean pain scores were reduced from baseline by 39%. As this study was published in 2002, it’s surprising that the results aren’t common knowledge. Another study, this time comparingvitamin B12 injections to the drug nortriptyline in 50 patients, found that the vitamin injections were more effective than the drug.

Pain scores dropped 3.66 points on the visual analogue scale as opposed to 0.84 points; parasthesia decreased by 2.98 units instead of 1.06; and tingling scores dropped 3.48 units instead of 1.02. However, nerve conduction did not improve in either group, unlike in the patients of the previously mentioned acetyl-l-carnitine study.

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3. Biotin to the Rescue

In addition, biotin in high doses may improve the symptoms of diabetic neuropathy, even within 4-8 weeks. This may be due to the correction of the biotin-dependent enzyme pyruvate carboxylase, which prevents the accumulation of pyruvate and/or the depletion of aspartate. Both of these play an important role in nervous system function.

4-6. Using Primsrose Oil, Alpha Lipoic Acid, and Capsaicin

A 2003 review examined the evidence behind the use of evening primrose oil, alpha lipoic acid, and capsaicin in the treatment of diabetic neuropathy. Trials on evening primrose oil showed significant improvements in nerve function measurements and overall symptom scores compared to placebo.

Arm muscle strength improved by 4.9 points versus a deterioration of 7.4 points; arm and leg sensation improved by 6.9 and 15 points instead of decreasing by 7.3 and 8.4 points respectively ,and median conduction velocity improved 1.4-2.4 points against placebo deterioration by up to 2 points. The most significant improvement was an increase in leg tendon reflex function by 17.7 points, while the placebo group saw a slight gain of 0.5 points.

Alpha lipoic acid, another reviewed supplement, is actually approved for the treatment of diabetic neuropathy in Germany, partly due to its antioxidant properties and ability to improve energy metabolism and neural glucose uptake. It can even recycle other antioxidants such as vitamins C and E!

Research evaluated described significant reductions in pain and disability scores, as well as improvements in nerve conduction velocities, particularly the sural sensory nerve with an improvement of 3-3.8 metres per second. As for capsaicin, there were significant benefits in regards to pain relief over the placebo, with far more treated patients reporting benefit.

Although capsaicin only provides symptomatic relief of pain, its benefits should not be overlooked as the pharmaceutical treatment of neuropathic pain involves drugs with potentially dangerous side effects, while capsaicin is safe.

Overall, it is clear that the false pessimism dispensed by pharmaceutical medicine is neither necessary nor wise.

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Really warrior woman, you had to take it slow. Try standing up and not knowing if you feet, which you cannot feel, will carry your weight. Try having your feet feel like two wooden blocks. Try being unable to wear shoes or boots and going out year-round in orthopaedic open shoes. Try waking up in the middle of the night with burning feet, so hot you want to cry. You don’t want to go to bed cause you know what’s going to happen.Try having the tingling go up your calf and know they’re the next to go, after your ankles which are now swollen to twice their size and at times feel like someone is hammering a large nail into them. Try living with pins and needles in your feet that come out of nowhere. Then there’s the sudden jab of pain that makes your whole leg jerk. Yeah, so you have sore feet, wish I only had sore feet.

AND NO ONE HAS A CURE!
The Internet is full of BS artists, who talk about neuropathy, but haven’t a clue about it. But you have!
I have it for 8 years and no one who hasn’t got it, hasn’t a clue about living with pain 24/7.

I had ignorantly abused sweets, wine and red meat, which I never thought could have this effect on the nerves in my body. A headache yes! But not this!

My blood sugars were at coma level – 84. The normal level is 5.8, so I was in deep-shit. They pumped me with drugs, which precipitated my neuropathy and I had it within a few days. I have my diabetes under control, BUT the damage done to the nerves can NEVER be cured!
The laughable thing about it is, everyone tells me about THEIR aches and pains, but REFUSE to believe me when I tell them that I am in pain 24/7.
I oil my feet with coconut and flax. I don’t take Pharma drugs, because they damage the kidneys and liver.
In the past 3 months I have cut out all wine and red meat and the weight is dropping off.
When the weather is hot at night, the nerves play up like hell and I can’t sleep. I look forward in getting up!

For years my feet hurt, although I am not diabetic. If I sat in my chair for even 10 minutes, when getting up to walk, I had to take it slow. Over a period of 6 or 7 years, I started eliminating chemicals from my diet, starting with MSG, which BTW, is only labeled as such if it is 99 or 100% of the total ingredients. Other names include flavoring of any type, spice(s), natural flavor(s, ing). I went on to eliminate dairy and gluten and eventually GMO foods, to the best of my ability. For me, I think it was the dairy that affected my joints, especially my feet and back. After 1 year without these foods, I woke up one morning feeling as though I was 10 years younger. I started to run again and am doing to 4+ years now. So, long story short, I wonder if some of the issues are diet related and could be abated with elimination of the allergen foods??

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